Wagon Wheels, Wooden Wagon Wheels

We make Wagon Wheels, Wooden Wagon Wheels, Cannon Wheels, Custom Wagon Wheels, Steel Wagon Wheels,, Decorative Wagon Wheels. Carriage Wheels and Buggy Wheels. Yesterdays Handmade Wagon Wheels, Handmade in the USA Today. For over 50 years Wagon Wheels and Wagons is what we do. That is why we sell more Wagon Wheels and Wagons than anyone else.

We are a family owned and operated business, located in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky and Eastern Pennsylvania. You will find our wagon wheels In the movies (Paramount, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers Pictures, Disney, Turner Films), on TV (Trading Places, Into The West, Myth Busters), on the beach at resorts, in university theater groups and major theme parks (Disney, Six Flags, Silver Dollar City, Kennywood, Tweetsie Rail Road) across America.

A Wagon Wheel, especially an American wagon wheel is made like no other wagon wheel in the world. There is no doubt that the invention of the wheel is one of the most important inventions in history. The reason you do not see a flood of wagon wheels from China being sent into the America market is because there has never been a machine made that can build an American type Wagon Wheel, it is a labor intensive project and most of the time the person building the wagon wheel is an artesian.

All of our Wood Wagon Wheels have forge shrunk steel rims, rubber can be applied to most of our Handmade Wagon Wheels. Our Wood Wagon Wheels are not only authentic Wagon Wheels that are use on our wagons, they can be used to add that rustic, country, or western decor to any room or landscape. These are the same Handmade Wood Wagon Wheels that we use for our wagon wheel chandeliers.

Wagon Wheel Hubs, like Wagon Wheels, come in all size and shapes, we have designed this information page on Wagon Wheel Hubs to assist you in determining the type of Wagon Wheel Hubs and the type to use for your project. We can custom build any size Wagon Wheel Hubs, Wagon Wheel Axles or Wagon Wheels to meet your needs.

ALL ABOUT WOOD WAGON WHEELS

Wagon Wheels consists of four main parts, the tire, felloe's, spokes, and hubs.

WAGON WHEEL FELLOES:

The normal felloes width on our Wagon Wheels range from 1" - 2 1/2". We can custom make the width on any of our Wagon Wheel to match the needs of your project. The width and depth of the felloe must remain in proportion. A 2" wide fellows should have a 1 1/2 - 2" depth.

WOOD WAGON WHEEL SPOKES:

Our Wood Wagon Wheels have 8, 10, 12, 14, or 16 spokes depending on the size of the wheel and what the wheel will be used for. The number of spokes must be in relationship to the size of the Wagon Wheels.

WAGON WHEEL TIRES:

There are three types of tires on our Wood Wagon Wheel, forge shrunk steel tires, flat rubber tires, and rolled rubber tires. We can place any type tire on any of our Wagon Wheels to fit your project needs.

Rubber, flat or rolled, can be added to any of the Wagon Wheels we make. Rubber not only makes less noise on pavement than steel tires, the wheel rolls better which makes it easier to pull. Rubber will last for 2000 -4000 miles before having to be replaced, depending on surface and conditions.

Adding rubber will increase the wheel size by approximately 2" please allow for the increase when ordering Wagon Wheels. If you add rubber to a 32" wheel, it will be 34" after the rubber.

The Sarven Hub Wheel became very popular from aroung 1850 with carriage makers in America and is still in use today. The Sarven Hub Wheel has a wood hub core, reinforced with iron flanges which gives the hub greater strength than the conventional wooden hub.

We build our hubs from select Ash. Weight limit on wood hubs depends on the size of the wagon wheels and hubs.. We can also custom build any size wood hub to meet your project needs, up to 1500 pounds.

Wagon Wheel Wood Hub, medium duty and heavy duty for an original wooden wagon wheel look and light to heavy use. Wood hubs can be used with a boxing, bearings or oil soaked brass inserts. We offer a large selection of wood hubs in all sizes.

We build our hubs from select Ash. Weight limit on wood hubs depends on the size of the wagon wheels and hubs.. We can also custom build any size wood hub to meet your project needs, up to 2000 pounds.

Designed to be used on miniature
horse carts, venders carts, and antique carts. This
wheel comes with (2) 3/4" i. d. sealed bearings inside the hub which makes for easy pulling for miniatures, can be used for road use.

This hub is ideal for venders carts for use in retail shops and stores as well as grocery store displays. The wheel is made from 100% solid American Hickory Wood with an Aluminum hub. Weight limit on Solid Aluminum Hub Wheel, 500 pounds per wheel.

This hub is ideal for venders carts for use in retail shops and stores as well as grocery store displays. The wheel is made from 100% solid American Hickory Wood with an Aluminum hub. Weight limit on Solid Aluminum Hub Wheel, 250 pounds per wheel.

Yesterdays Handmade Steel Wagon Wheels, Handmade in the USA Today. For over 50 years Steel Wheels is what we do. That is why we sell more Steel Wheels than anyone else. Our Steel Wagon Wheels comes in seven sizes and can be used as decorative wagon wheels or functional wagon wheels.

While we make a number of square solid steel axles with bearings optional in various lengths as well as various styles of Stub Axles. We also make Wood Wagon Axles as well. For pricing on all axles, full size and stubs in metal, as well as wood axles, please Contact Us.

Most all carriage wheels, cannon wheels and wagon wheels have been dished, one of the main reasons the wheel is dished is strength. Dished wheels were invented by the Romans, from Egyptian time's war chariots were built with flat wheels or straight wheels; while this type of wheel was great for fast speed, making a turn with this type of wheel could not be done. If you made a turn with a straight wheel at high speeds it would put pressure on the hub and cause the wheel to fail.

The Romans were superior engineers and knew that coming to a stop to make a turn was not the way to win a war. The Romans figured out that putting an iron tire on the wheel while it was hot and let it cool down would pull the wheel together and dish the wheel or cause the center of the hub to be off center not straight. With the wheel dished, it caused the hub to be braced by the spokes unlike the spokes in a straight wheel, the dish would offset the force that would be generated in a turn at a high speed and would allow war chariots to be efficient. Wagon wheels for the most part, have been made this way through the twentieth century.

Carriage Wheels - Buggy Wheels, made from quality hickory wood with a powder coated metal hubs. These carriage wheels are real working wheels, yet can be used for decoration; replacement carriage wheels are used on carriages, Amish buggies and buggy's around the world. These Handmade Carriage Wheels are Horse Drawn Carriage Wheels, Bearings and axles for these carriage wheels come in many different sizes and are made to the customers specifications.

Wood Butter Churns - Wood Buckets, Take A Trip Back In Time.... Both adds a country accent to your home. Like all of our churns or buckets, it is a replica of old style used on the American frontier and in farm houses throughout the US. Sanded smooth white pine staves and hoops that are fastened by copper nails. Add a great country or antique accent, or unfinished, it makes a project for painting or stenciling to add your own personal touch.

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Wood Wheelbarrow, Handcrafted and Works in your garden or yeard, quality workmanship to insure years of service. This wheelbarrow is constructed of solid wood with steam bent wooden wheel and steel rim. The sides are removable for oversized loads or for more decorating options. Great for seasonal yard or porch decoration, fill with pumpkins and corn in the fall, fill with plants in the spring and summer, or use for general landscaping.

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Cannon Wheels made of hickory wood and designed to look like the civil war era cannon wheels. These wheels are extremely strong and solid, designed and dished for working cannon use. If you plan on rolling your cannon wheels around or pulling your cannon, your cannon wheels will require a bushing inserted into the hub, the price of the bushing includes truing so the wheel runs true and epoxying the bushing inside the hub. Axles are available for all of our Cannon Wheels.

Butter Churn Lamp, you do not have to buy a wagon wheel chandelier to enjoy a light from yesterday with our butter churn lamps. We have a large selection of cloth shades available for all the lamps we make for the butter churn lamps to our wagon hub lamps Our butter churn lamps are made from the butter churns found in our online store, Our butter churn lamps can be used to add that rustic, country, or western decor to any room or landscape.